Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown is the author of Goodnight Moon, which was published in 1947. It has sold more than 48 million copies and continues to sell 800,000 copies every year. 

Hear Wes Tank rap Goodnight Moon:

Margaret Brown also wrote a book of poetry called The Important Book.  Notice the pattern in each poem! 

Listen to a read-aloud of The Important Book. Margaret Wise Brown wrote this book, so she decided the most important thing about an apple is that it is round. If you wrote a poem about an apple, what would you say is the most important thing about an apple? That it’s juicy? Healthy?

Margaret Wise Brown was a very interesting person! Mac Barnett wrote a biography of her called The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown. (Do you notice how he borrowed the pattern from her poem?)

Here is Margaret Wise Brown (on the right) with her younger sister, pet dog, and pet rabbits:

Here is Margaret Wise Brown with one of her beloved dogs:

Her dog went everywhere with her:

She loved being outdoors:

Here she is writing:

Here is an original edition of Little Fur Family, with a cover made of actual rabbit fur!

Modern editions look like this, with a small patch of fake fur:

Here is her house in Maine next to the lake: